Key Study: Hydrocortisone therapy for patients with septic shock (2008)
Key Study: Hydrocortisone therapy for patients with septic shock (2008)
Visit VisitBackground: Hydrocortisone is widely used in patients with septic shock even though a survival benefit has been reported only in patients who remained hypotensive after fluid and vasopressor resuscitation and whose plasma cortisol levels did not rise appropriately after the administration of corticotropin. Published: 2008.
